Posted in education, opensource on Sep 30th, 2006
[A variety of UC Berkeley courses](http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html) are freely available online via google video. I especially like Physics for future Presidents, aka conceptual physics.
[Rik notes](http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2006/09/addicted_to_vir.html) that Pew has released a [second future of the Internet report](http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/188/report_display.asp).
Scenario 5 is about virtual reality addition. This is a silly concept ([as many respondents have noted](http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2006survey/virtualreality.xhtml)), and will become the fodder of luddite television, as the old vs. new media battle continues. Remember the scourge that calculators were to become, crippling our [...]
NYTimes opinion piece from September 18, 2006
The countries that outperform the United States in math and science education have some things in common. They set national priorities for what public school children should learn and when. They also spend a lot of energy ensuring that every school has a high-quality curriculum that is harnessed to [...]
Posted in education, legal, opensource on Sep 17th, 2006
Online learning provider Blackboard, Inc. announced that it has patented the Learning Management System (LMS). Prior art exists in many forms. Please join us in signing the petition below to boycott Blackboard, Inc. for fabricating this ill-conceived and illegitimate patent against the education industry. We fully support those companies that are rightfully fighting this attack [...]
Posted in education on Sep 9th, 2006
NYTimes article from September 2, 2006
Nearly half the 14.7 million undergraduates at two- and four-year institutions never receive degrees.
Nearly half of all students seeking degrees begin their journeys at community colleges.
Most of the students expect the transition to community college to be seamless. But the first, and sometimes last, stop for many are remedial [...]
I can see computers everywhere–except in the productivity statistics!
— Robert Solow
